Book ID: CBB000950240

Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age (2008)

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McCray, W. Patrick (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xiii + 308 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the amateur astronomy groups that met to assist professional astronomers by observing the first artificial satellites.


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Review Jeon, Chihyung (2009) Review of "Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age". Technology and Culture (p. 946). unapi

Review Dick, Steven J. (2009) Review of "Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 685). unapi

Essay Review Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2010) Science and Technology for Every Man, Woman, and Child. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 259-267). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Pressel, Philip
Allen, Ned
Wormbs, Nina
Tsiao, Sunny
Slotten, Hugh Richard
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
Journals
History and Technology
Technology and Culture
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Contemporary History
Journal of American Culture
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
George Washington University
Walker & Company
University of Nebraska Press
Texas A&M University Press
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, Inc.
Concepts
Space travel; space flight
Satellites, artificial
Space programs
Astronautics
Popular culture
Space research and exploration
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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